Coding is one aspect of digital making. When you write code, you are writing instructions for a computer to follow. The instructions might just be "turn this graphic by one degree each second", or ...

Teaching K-12 coding without computers may seem like a daunting task, but it can be a powerful way to introduce students to the fundamental concepts of computer science and problem-solving without the ...

To teach language to the youngest students, you first introduce them to the letters of the alphabet and the sounds that the letters make. Next, you step forward into combining letters into simple ...

The world is much different than when we were growing up. Teaching coding to kids was something very few people thought about ...

In a Rincon Valley Library classroom on a recent Friday, a group of Maria Carrillo High students asked almost 30 elementary schoolers how many of them had been to Disneyland? A few hands shot up. Then ...

Dr. Shaw and Dr. Hilton teach software engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. For decades, computer science students have been taught a central skill: using computers to solve problems. In ...

K-12 educators across the country are pondering how to use artificial-intelligence-powered technologies in the classroom and what that use might look like. Some experts believe conversations around ...

Forward-looking: For computer science students, generative AI isn't just the future – it's the present. These smart language models are already reshaping how the next generation of programmers learns ...

I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...